Blaise Pascal Quotes

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

The biggest fear that everybody has is dying. Not to get too meta on you, but I think every fear that people are trying to work out is really like I'm going to die and no one is going to care, and it doesn't matter because God might not exist. That's what people are trying to figure out. I wish we all had one fear so we could think about it together and figure out a solution, but we're all doing different things.

He that feares death lives not.

I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it.

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

Every fear is fear of death.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

We each cope differently with the specter of our deaths. Some people deny it. Some pray. Some numb themselves with tequila. I was tempted to do a little of each of those things. But I think we are supposed to try to face it straightforwardly, armed with nothing but courage.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them.

I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.